{"id":192242,"date":"2026-03-15T07:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T07:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192242\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T07:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T07:09:16","slug":"vanderbilt-swamps-florida-defeating-gators-in-sec-tournament-semifinal-blowout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192242\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanderbilt swamps Florida, defeating Gators in SEC Tournament semifinal blowout"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Florida saw its 12-game winning streak in a blowout loss to Vanderbilt in the SEC Tournament semifinal. The No. 4 seed Commodores thumped the top-seed Gators 91-74 to move on to Sunday\u2019s tournament title game.<\/p>\n

Vanderbilt<\/a> opened up a double-digit lead in the first half and never looked back. It was a 13-point difference at the half (47-34) that reached 25 points in the second half, Florida\u2019s largest deficit in 3 years.<\/p>\n

The Commodores shot well all game, making 55% of its field-goal attempts, including 48% from 3-point territory.<\/p>\n

Florida<\/a> opened the game shooting 11-of-30 from the field in the first half. The Gators shot better in the second half to finish 36-of-57 for the game, but didn\u2019t help the comeback effort making only 5-of-17 3-point attempts (29%).<\/p>\n

The Gators committed 14 turnovers to Vandy\u2019s 8, and the Commodores cashed in. Vanderbilt managed 24 points off turnovers, besting UF\u2019s 14.<\/p>\n

Tyler Tanner was the game\u2019s high scorer with 20 points. Jalen Washington (17 points), Duke Miles (15 points), Devin McGlockton (12 points) and AK Okereke made it 5 Commodores in double figures.<\/p>\n

With the win, Vanderbilt will play either 3-seed Arkansas or 11-seed Ole Miss in Sunday\u2019s SEC Tournament Championship Game. Florida, meanwhile, heads back to Gainesville waiting to learn on Selection Sunday if it did enough to secure a No. 1 seed in the Big Dance.<\/p>\n

Will Vandy win the SEC Tournament? Kalshi<\/a> is taking prediction action!<\/p>\n

\"Andrew<\/p>\n

Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida saw its 12-game winning streak in a blowout loss to Vanderbilt in the SEC Tournament semifinal. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-192242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}